In March 1893, a request for a dynamite magazine store license in High Blantyre was raised at the House of Commons due to numerous local objections. The original site in Auchentibber was deemed too close to the hamlet, leading to the store’s relocation further down the hill, near Calderside road, where it still stands.
Edition 5 (August) of the fab Blantyre Telegraph Monthly Magazine is now out in local shops! Priced at just £1, all sales of the Blantyre magazine go entirely to local good causes. It features some articles and photos deliberately held back from the websites ensuring plenty of fresh, new topical content. Now becoming more established […]
Gordon Cook recently brought this little former building to my attention. On the 1896 map, there’s a small building in the middle of fields beside the Clay Road, which would shortly after become Victoria Street. It’s suggested that this little building was either the dynamite magazine for the building of Blantyre’s Railways in the […]
My BIG news seems to be out. So here goes…. I’m launching Blantyre’s very own Glossy Magazine! I decided against a Blantyre annual after all, settling for a quarterly full glossy magazine. Professionally designed, it will be packed full of local Blantyre news, including jobs, stories, crime, readers letters, local business interests, results of our […]
I’ve been surprised lately to find out how many Colliery Dynamite stores still exist in Blantyre. One at Sydes Brae, another near Craigknowe and one at Bardykes, so I was curious when Graham Carson has contacted me saying, “At the time of the 1957 pictures of Priestfied Terrace were taken I lived in number 3 […]
You may remember recently about me posting about the Priory Pit Dynamite Store. Blantyre woman Katarzyna found the little store in woods and asked me what it was. I did suspect that it was the Dynamite store for the colliery (and if so the only building still existing relating to the colliery (with exception of […]
About halfway up Sydes Brae, before you reach Auchentibber, on the right hand side, sits in a field, a hidden little brick and stone building. Easily missed, it sits in a dip in the field, quite hidden and inconspicuous. It was situated as such for a very good reason. This was Dixon Collieries Dynamite Magazine […]